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By Kanwal jit Singh Gill
It has been 27 years since hundreds of innocent lives were lost in the Air India tragedy.
We’ll pay our respect and homage to all the innocent lives lost in this tragedy. But the sad thing is that Canadian Intelligence Services and Justice system has failed to punish the guilty persons.
In the John Major-led Air India Inquiry, Canadian Intelligence agents working for CSIS or RCMP testified that they suspected the role of Indian Diplomats/Secret agents in the Air India Tragedy. But unfortunately Canadian Govt. refused to follow up on this thing to maintain good business and diplomatic relations with the Indian Govt. And most of the evidence leading towards Indian secret agents was destroyed.
Many Canadian Politicians and Media persons don’t want to believe that Indian Govt. can blow its own Air India flight and kill innocent persons. But they forget that we are talking about Indian Govt. that can attack a very religious place, where thousands of innocent worshippers are present, with army and tanks, killing thousands of innocent worshippers.
The Indira Gandhi led Govt. told the world and media that they had to attack the Golden Temple to kill terrorists hiding in there. But according to Lt. Gen. Sinha, Indira Gandhi had started planning and asked army to start training to attack the Golden Temple 18 months earlier. If Indira Gandhi started making these plans 18 months earlier, that means she must have discussed this with her close advisors few months earlier.
That means Indira Gandhi had planned to attack the Golden Temple when the main accused militant Sikh leader Sant Bhindrawale and his associates were not in the Golden Temple complex and terrorism wasn’t a problem in Punjab. Average person will ask, then why would Indira Gandhi will plan to attack the religious place like Golden Temple.
Former Canadian High Commissioner to India in 1984 William Warden testified before Justice Major at Air India inquiry that in 1975 Indira Gandhi had imposed a state of emergency in India and the Sikh Akali party of Punjab launched one of the largest and most effective demonstrations against what she was doing.
Finally the emergency was lifted in 1977 and she lost the next elections. When Indira Gandhi was re-elected as PM in 1980, she was particularly angry about the Sikh protests against her dictatorial rule during the two years of emergency rule and was determined to teach Sikhs a lesson.
In Warden’s words it was a “Pay Back Time.” So Indira Gandgi had planned to attack the Golden Temple to get her revenge from Sikhs for opposing her emergency rule and to get large majority of Hindu votes in the next elections.
After Indira Gandhi’s death thousands of innocent Sikhs were killed in 1984 Sikh Genocide that was planned, organised and executed by the ruling Congress Govt. led by Rajeev Gandhi. That is why the police and security forces never made any effort to stop mobs from killing innocent persons. So far in 28 years the Indian Justice system controlled by the ruling Congress Govt. has failed to punish the guilty persons.
Sikhs living in Western countries were working very hard to let the western Govts. and media know about thousands of innocent lives lost in Blue Star Operation and 1984 Sikh Genocide. Some western politicians and media started getting sympathetic to the Sikhs and started asking questions and demanding Justice for the victim families on Humanity basis.
But Rajeev Gandhi led Govt. didn’t like that and decided to do something really bad to Sikhs as bad terrorists. That is when Govt. decided to use its secret black cat agents to make wild statements and do something very stupid to project Sikhs as wild terrorists.
And those secret agents organised the Air India tragedy and were successful to change the views of western politicians and media about Sikhs. CSIC agents knew about Indian Govt’s secret agents role and had warned the Canadian government about the Air India tragedy. But unfortunately Canadian Govt for its business and Diplomatic reasons ignored those facts and never blamed those secret agents for that tragedy. It is very sad but true facts that how Govts give more priority to their business interests rather than providing justice to the victim families.
We just hope that one day the general public and media will start asking questions to the Govt that why it ignored CSIC agents leads and suspicions about the role of Indian Diplomats or secret agents in the Air India tragedy. When will the Govt have the courage to go after the real guilty persons and provide Justice to the hundreds of innocent victim families.
Kanwal jit Singh Gill is a Surrey, B.C-based writer and activist.
It has been 27 years since hundreds of innocent lives were lost in the Air India tragedy.
We’ll pay our respect and homage to all the innocent lives lost in this tragedy. But the sad thing is that Canadian Intelligence Services and Justice system has failed to punish the guilty persons.
In the John Major-led Air India Inquiry, Canadian Intelligence agents working for CSIS or RCMP testified that they suspected the role of Indian Diplomats/Secret agents in the Air India Tragedy. But unfortunately Canadian Govt. refused to follow up on this thing to maintain good business and diplomatic relations with the Indian Govt. And most of the evidence leading towards Indian secret agents was destroyed.
Many Canadian Politicians and Media persons don’t want to believe that Indian Govt. can blow its own Air India flight and kill innocent persons. But they forget that we are talking about Indian Govt. that can attack a very religious place, where thousands of innocent worshippers are present, with army and tanks, killing thousands of innocent worshippers.
The Indira Gandhi led Govt. told the world and media that they had to attack the Golden Temple to kill terrorists hiding in there. But according to Lt. Gen. Sinha, Indira Gandhi had started planning and asked army to start training to attack the Golden Temple 18 months earlier. If Indira Gandhi started making these plans 18 months earlier, that means she must have discussed this with her close advisors few months earlier.
That means Indira Gandhi had planned to attack the Golden Temple when the main accused militant Sikh leader Sant Bhindrawale and his associates were not in the Golden Temple complex and terrorism wasn’t a problem in Punjab. Average person will ask, then why would Indira Gandhi will plan to attack the religious place like Golden Temple.
Former Canadian High Commissioner to India in 1984 William Warden testified before Justice Major at Air India inquiry that in 1975 Indira Gandhi had imposed a state of emergency in India and the Sikh Akali party of Punjab launched one of the largest and most effective demonstrations against what she was doing.
Finally the emergency was lifted in 1977 and she lost the next elections. When Indira Gandhi was re-elected as PM in 1980, she was particularly angry about the Sikh protests against her dictatorial rule during the two years of emergency rule and was determined to teach Sikhs a lesson.
In Warden’s words it was a “Pay Back Time.” So Indira Gandgi had planned to attack the Golden Temple to get her revenge from Sikhs for opposing her emergency rule and to get large majority of Hindu votes in the next elections.
After Indira Gandhi’s death thousands of innocent Sikhs were killed in 1984 Sikh Genocide that was planned, organised and executed by the ruling Congress Govt. led by Rajeev Gandhi. That is why the police and security forces never made any effort to stop mobs from killing innocent persons. So far in 28 years the Indian Justice system controlled by the ruling Congress Govt. has failed to punish the guilty persons.
Sikhs living in Western countries were working very hard to let the western Govts. and media know about thousands of innocent lives lost in Blue Star Operation and 1984 Sikh Genocide. Some western politicians and media started getting sympathetic to the Sikhs and started asking questions and demanding Justice for the victim families on Humanity basis.
But Rajeev Gandhi led Govt. didn’t like that and decided to do something really bad to Sikhs as bad terrorists. That is when Govt. decided to use its secret black cat agents to make wild statements and do something very stupid to project Sikhs as wild terrorists.
And those secret agents organised the Air India tragedy and were successful to change the views of western politicians and media about Sikhs. CSIC agents knew about Indian Govt’s secret agents role and had warned the Canadian government about the Air India tragedy. But unfortunately Canadian Govt for its business and Diplomatic reasons ignored those facts and never blamed those secret agents for that tragedy. It is very sad but true facts that how Govts give more priority to their business interests rather than providing justice to the victim families.
We just hope that one day the general public and media will start asking questions to the Govt that why it ignored CSIC agents leads and suspicions about the role of Indian Diplomats or secret agents in the Air India tragedy. When will the Govt have the courage to go after the real guilty persons and provide Justice to the hundreds of innocent victim families.
Kanwal jit Singh Gill is a Surrey, B.C-based writer and activist.
